But the trouble is, that when they turn from voting to writing they call many of their abstract reflections on government studies of politics, and thereby lose the benefit of some very wholesome aids to just thought.
Wilson critiques the tendency of political writers to confuse abstract reflections with genuine studies of politics, which undermines their insights.
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